A Study on the Psychological Characteristics of the Sexual Offender

Abstract

It has been considered generally that the sexual crimes are committed mostly by the mental deficiency or the abnormal persons as psychopath and psychosis.

But following to the researches in the correctional institution and to the reports of the parole activities, we have some different information about this fact.

Then, going to survey the psychological characteristics of the inmate of the sexual offender by summarizing the result of some tests, the Rorschach technique, Picture-Frustration Study, and Yatabe-Guilford Personality Inventry, etc., we prepared the new design as follow.

Method

Twenty one inmates were chosen at random for this research. Average age; 25 years. Av IQ; 88.5. all of them took three tests, Y-G Personality Inventry, Rorschach test, Sentence Completion Test. The procedure of Rorschach technique was quite same as Klopfer’s. Picture-Frustration Study was added to fifteen subjects of all.

Discussion

Regerding to the result of the each test, we can show some charactereristics or the problem of their personality based on the individual data.

However, individual significant characteristics of the sexual offender disappered in the case of total average because of the opposition of each deviation.

Trying to find out the personality trends of the sexual offender, we intended to classify the some categories to which they belong. The Rorschach profile was adopted to make some categories mentioned above. As a result, three groups of category came out of whole subjects, the first one is the group to which the impulsive and the weak to control acting out behavior belong, the second one consist of the suppressive subjects, the last one is the group to which those who have the mental dificiency belong.

Besides, the case study was added to; one case was chosen from each group.

It is expected in future that the more and more research like this have to be done to prove these findings reliable.